Paul Newman Quotes

I say you play a part, you don't work one.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

There is no entitlement without a duty.

Clergymen do well to preach the neglected doctrine that the first duty of a citizen is to consider what he can do for the state and not what the state will do for him.

Citizenship is a lifetime job.

I have dual citizenship with Italy.

I have dual citizenship.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

I felt like I always knew my role.

When I'm acting, I do what I'm supposed to do.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the United States is important. I mean it depends on how you define loyalty.

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.